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BRFA

First make a bot account, perhaps User:CX Zoom bot; best to make it while logged in using Special:CreateAccount.

Then you can request a bot approval for it. When it's time to do the thing, log in as that bot to AWB and away you go.

Alternatively if you don't want to do this all the time, you could see if another bot operator wants to do the task over at WP:BOTREQ. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:00, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again Xaosflux. I was told by Primefac that he runs a bot able to perform similar tasks. So, if he takes it up, great, else I'll make a bot later. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 07:49, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Suggestion

Hello, CX Zoom! You might be interested in endorsing an essay in which creation I participated – WP:NOCONFED. Of course, this is just a suggestion, nothing more. Cheers! — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 21:17, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rachellegeneroso

Hi there, I was looking through Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rachellegeneroso/Archive as I could see that Thailand at the Big Four international beauty pageants just got recreated and that was previously a favourite of this sockpuppeteer. Based on their edits, is this the same person? I thought that I'd ask you as you are more familiar with this user. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:02, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Spiderone: Sorry for the late response, as I was away. Yeah, it definitely looks like the same person, {firstname}{lastname} format of username, never writing edit summaries, and making very trivial-looking edits until a point when they start adding major hoaxes. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 12:39, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

Hey! Just reverted my edits. Sorry about that, I was using visual editing and didn't know it would get rid of spaces WikiFazBear1984 (talk) 14:25, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiFazBear1984: Oh, it is alright. I did not know about this. Can you fix them all, or would you need any assistance from me? Best, —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 17:50, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm all good, I'll fix them when I'm able to. Sorry for that WikiFazBear1984 (talk) 18:58, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:!(!

Template:!(! has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. GiovanniSidwell (talk) 15:50, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppetry

Hello, CX Zoom,

Thank you for reverting edits from our recent sockpuppets on Indian railroad articles. I've protected several articles for a week but it looks like they hit a number of other articles where their edits were kept. Unfortunately, I know nothing about the subject so I do not know whether or not these edits were improvements or not. But thank you for keeping your eye out for them. I think they will be back. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:34, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've many of them on my watchlist. Will keep an eye out. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 07:34, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Where did the discussion go?

Here is a link showing you removing an RM discussion from Talk:Aircraft maintenance engineer/Archives/2022, saying that discussion record was being moved to Talk:Aircraft maintenance engineer/Archive 2. But I don't see it there. Do you know where it is now? —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 03:14, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@BarrelProof: Thanks for pointing that out. I must have missed it for whatever reasons as I couldn't find relevant edits in my contribs. This particular instance has been fixed and I would be taking extra care going forward. Thanks again! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 04:58, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Thanks for fixing it. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 06:00, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Crash versus accident

Hello, I've been thinking about a good way to explain why it's important not to default to the word "accident", particularly when human lives are lost as a result of the event. The bus crash you called an "accident" was a direct result of human negligence, according to the sources cited. Rather than boring you with a litany of research, I found that the wiki article for the "accident" actually explains the logic for avoiding the word pretty succinctly. Dreameditsbrooklyn (talk) 01:16, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

CUET

I understand what you did here [1] but you can't just ignore the existence of another meaning. I added a hatnote at CUET. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:45, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Shhhnotsoloud: Thanks for the hatnote. Actually, I had added the hatnote earlier (Special:Diff/1142678735) which was removed at a later point but I had not noticed it, so I couldn't add the hatnote again. Once again, thanks for fixing this oversight. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 11:22, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

2 Cents

Hello CX Zoom, Raydann has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
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I'm going through the same phase you went through. Hope the coming generation of parents realise that life is more than just running for marks in the JEE rathole. And the next gen of students become more independent in their career choices. ❯❯❯ Raydann ^(Talk) 13:46, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Raydann. This is much appreciated 🫶 —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 14:39, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

EFH granted

I have closed your request on WP:EFN as successful. Not much else to say, really, since the right doesn't do that much :) Please make sure you've read through WP:EFH, contact an administrator if your account's been compromised, etc. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 18:14, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this @Ingenuity. Also thanks for granting me Confirmed right on the AWB account. I was dumbfounded when my AWB suddenly stopped running (Special:AbuseLog/35466201). —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 18:21, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

2023 arbitration committee election RfC discussions moved to 2023 talk page

I have moved the discussions under Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2022 § Topics to review for 2023 to Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023. Please feel free to continue discussion on the 2023 talk page! isaacl (talk) 21:47, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A request

CAn you tell me how to add citations in Wikipedia? Dhruva Gamerx (talk) 11:13, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dhruva Gamerx: I'm sorry, I was offline for some days, so couldn't respond earlier. If you have Visual editor on, you can follow the instructions on Help:VisualEditor#Editing references. If you do not have visual editor available, you can follow the instructions at Help:Footnotes. All the best. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 20:12, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 05:54, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! ❤️ —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 22:56, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

User:CX Zoom/Vital.json

Hi! I was looking at this page and wondering if you could convert it to the format I've started at Wikipedia:Vital articles/list? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:03, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MSGJ: Sure. I'm currently on a journey. I'll do it as soon as I'm back home. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 16:57, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MSGJ: See User:CX Zoom/Vital 1-3.json. For 1001 entries, it takes about 80,918 bytes. Since the vital articles list is about 50,000 items long, it won't fit within the 2MiB maximum limit of a page. I suggest that we split the list into 6 separate alphabetical lists: A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-T, U-Z. Also, I generated the topic names as mentioned at WP:VITAL, and there is sometimes a disconnect between topic names in the master list, and those mentioned in the talk page template. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 11:57, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This looks great, thanks. What is "basename" for? For levels 4-5 there is also a "subpage" parameter which is sometimes used. Would it improve performance if we have 26 separate lists for each letter of the alphabet? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:07, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In the master list, some articles were mentioned as [[Function (mathematics)|Function]], so I used "basename": Function just in case its needed somewhere. Usually used for overriding disambiguation or technical restrictions on title. I think separate lists for each letter would be an improvement, as a simple switch case can direct you to the correct sublist, and then you'd need to parse fewer items to reach the bottom of the list (when needed to). As I said, some articles have a disconnect between their topic names in the master list, and in the talk page. For example, WP:VIT3 mentions Carbohydrate under Science > Chemistry. But its talk page mentions the topic to be "Biology". Looking at the subpage parameter of some pages, it is even more inconsistent. So, I'm not sure what to do there. Maybe someone from vital articles WikiProject can help. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 12:27, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MSGJ: since ping not sent. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 12:28, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No need to ping. Okay, 26 separate lists looks best then. I have posted on WT:VITAL to ask, but I suspect the actual list on the project page is the master copy, so let's go with that unless someone disagrees — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:48, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question: how do you create pages in JSON format (e.g. Wikipedia:Vital articles/list/A.json) in one edit? And why didn't it happen with Wikipedia:Vital articles/data/A.json? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MSGJ (talk • contribs) 14:58, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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